CVE-2024-40989: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: arm64: Disassociate vcpus from redistributor region on teardown When tearing down a redistributor region, make sure we don't have any dangling pointer to that region stored in a vcpu.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: from 5.13, before 6.1.96 (fixed in 6.1.96); from 6.2, before 6.6.36 (fixed in 6.6.36); from 6.7, before 6.9.7 (fixed in 6.9.7); version 6.10 only

Published 2024-07-12. Last modified 2026-08-04.